Visual Studio Installer > How To Launch App at End of Installer

Question

This is probably a stupid question and my Googling just is not functioning today.

I have an application I added a Visual Studio Installer > Setup Wizard project to.

Answer 1

Warning: The application will end up running as a high privilege account, which has security and user experience implications.

In Visual Studio 2010 here it is easy...

Step1: Add a new installer class to the application project that you wish to run after install, call it what you like.

Step2: Add the following code to the Installer class you just added replcaing MyApplication.exe with the name of yours.

Public Overrides Sub Commit(ByVal savedState As System.Collections.IDictionary)

    MyBase.Commit(savedState)
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Me.Context.Parameters("AssemblyPath")) + "\MyApplication.exe")

End Sub

Compile and go...